70 m. ago Minister refuses to rule out more benefit cuts amid backlash over Liz Kendall move to slash disability payments – UK politics live

Stephen Timms, social security and disability minister, says ‘who knows what will happen in next five years’ as welfare bill is increasing even with cutsMatt Hancock, the former Tory health secretary, has just started giving evidence to the Covid inquiry as part of its inquiry into PPE procurement.There is a live feed here.Of course people who can work should work - no one is questioning that - but for my relatives, friends and neighbours, and your constituents who have the misfortune to suffer from a chronic, debilitating, long-term condition that leaves them bed-bound, unable to leave their home or crushed by mental illness, these cuts will not motivate them to get back to work, it will instead scare and humiliate them and strip them of their dignity and self respect and for some it will send them to an early grave. The blame for this will lie squarely with you and the sycophants within your party who passively support these dreadful cuts. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Republicans push to make 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' a mental health disorder

Five GOP lawmakers introduced a bill to the Minnesota Senate on Monday that would add "Trump derangement syndrome" to the state's list of recognised mental health disorders

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10 h. ago Republicans want to make 'Trump derangement syndrome' an official mental health disorder

A bill has been introduced in the Minnesota state Senate, describing the condition as an "acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump"

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15 h. ago Republican who introduced Trump derangement syndrome bill arrested for soliciting a minor

Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn allegedly traveled to meet a 17-year-old he thought met online, but was instead a cop posing as minorA Republican state lawmaker in Minnesota who recently introduced a bill to create a mental illness category for liberals obsessed over Donald Trump was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution.Minnesota senator Justin Eichorn was arrested and booked on Tuesday. He believed he was talking to a 17-year-old female, but was communicating instead with detectives from the Bloomington, Minnesota, police department, police allege. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Minnesota lawmaker accused of soliciting a minor same day he introduced ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ bill

Eichorn was arrested Monday night, hours after introducing a controversial bill

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43 h. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The Motability scheme was never designed to buy 50

My local BMW dealer once told me the only thing keeping his business afloat was knocking out 1-series hatchbacks on the Motability scheme.

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49 h. ago Top 19 Adult Disability Payment health conditions providing people with up to £737 each month

The devolved disability benefit can support people with a disability, long-term illness or physical or mental health condition.

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50 h. ago Republicans want to officially classify ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ as a mental illness

Symptoms of the faux illness include ‘Trump-induced general hysteria’ where a person struggles to distinguish between ‘legitimate policy and ‘psychic pathology’

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1 week ago B&M mystery as shoppers claim store left them feeling 'ill' as 'mental' theory slammed

One shopper in B&M reported a strange moment where they felt ill following a visit to store, with many Facebook users slamming the 'mental' theory which they shared online

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1 week ago Kimberley Nixon says ‘I just take it one crisis at a time’ as she opens up on the worst period of her life

'I became ill in a way that I didn’t expect and I didn’t seem to be ticking any of the right boxes for postnatal mental illnesses that people had heard of'

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2 w. ago Charities call on Lanarkshire locals for more support for mental illness

Members of the UK Anti-Stigma Alliance – See Me in Scotland, Inspire in Northern Ireland, and Time to Change Wales – are encouraging people across Lanarkshire to play their part in helping to end the shame which so many people feel.

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3 w. ago DWP giving people with respiratory issues including asthma up to £737 each month

PIP is awarded to people who have difficulty doing certain everyday tasks due to an illness, disability or mental health condition

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4 w. ago Elon Musk blasts the Left’s ‘completely irrational’ ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ in Fox sit

‘I happened to mention the president’s name, and it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies,’ Musk says of liberals

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4 w. ago Elon Musk claims friends suffer from ‘Trump derangement syndrome’

Elon Musk declared that "[Donald] Trump derangement syndrome" is real in a joint interview with the US president broadcast on Monday, 17 February.

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4 w. ago North Lanarkshire Council set to mark national Adult Support and Protection Day

Throughout North Lanarkshire, there are some adults who are more at risk from harm, due to illness, trauma and physical or mental health conditions.

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last month The Inherited Mind by James Longman review – a moving memoir of mental illness in the family

The TV reporter’s struggles with depression and the suicide of his father, whose own father killed himself, prompt this incisive, highly personal investigationJames Longman is an English broadcast journalist who was the BBC’s man in Beirut before joining US network ABC, where he is now chief international correspondent. He has reported from wars in Syria and Ukraine and covered Covid lockdowns, the queen’s funeral and the 2018 cave rescue in Thailand.On screen, Longman is the type of British journalist that Americans love: eloquent, charismatic and unflappable. Behind the composure, however, runs a tragic legacy of mental illness. In 1996, when he was nine, Longman’s father John, an artist who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in his 20s, died after setting fire to his Notting Hill flat. Longman’s paternal grandfather also killed himself, and his mother, too, has endured mental health struggles. Longman’s own experiences with depression from his mid-20s onwards have prompted him...

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